Evaluation part 5

After looking at our feedback results I think we appealed to our target audience very well. As you can see we got the gender it appeals to and the age certificate spot on, with the audience thinking it was aimed at females only or males and females with an age certificate of 15 which was exactly what we wanted. From our feedback it was clear that our audience favoured our unique story line, so we made sure not to change that.

   In the production of our film we made sure to keep within our 15 certificate so our target audience could actually view the film, and to keep it appealing to the female viewers. This meant that we had to shoot shots that would make the audience empathise with. We also made sure to get our location right to make sure our film was seen as a thriller and there was no confusion.
 
 From our second feedback questionaire we found that our audience's favourite thing about our film was its storyline which was satisfying because we spent a lot of time coming up with the idea of a female hero to save Isobelle, I would agree with the audience that this is the best aspect of our film.

   However our film isn't perfect. After looking at feedback from the audience it was clear that the background noise in the outdoor scenes could have been reduced to improve our film. The background noise was due to a change of location where there was a lot of traffic.
   I think that if we changed the location and reduced the background noise our film would be significantly improved.

Evaluation part 7

My preliminary excercise helped me a lot when making our final 2 minute project. One of the main things the priliminary task helped with was the editing. After getting a feel for Final Cut Express and learning how to put together a smooth film it made editing for the final film much faster and easier, and helped us massively in keeping continuity in our final film. In the priliminary excercise we also learned how to correctly shoot shot reverse shot conversations and correctly aplly the 180 degree rule which was vital.
   As I was given the job of holding the camera to shoot the film the priliminary was very good in helping me get a feel for the cameras and how to use all of their features, and keeping them steady when freehand shooting and learning how to use a tripod.
   I would say I've got better at planning and organisatrion after shooting our final film. We made arrangements for time and place for shooting our film and this was vital or the film wouldn't have been finished on time. I've also learned how to use blogger, How to embed a HTML and how to use prezi and mindomo.

Evalution part 4

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Evaluation part 6

Before we started filming we made a blogger account to upload all of our research, planning and final film onto. We used google docs to construct our target audience questionaire and looked at using Celtex to make a script. We were shown how to properly use the camera and tripod we would be using to shoot our film. We then edited our with Final Cut Express.
   We shot our film using Sony HDV cameras and recorded onto a tape. We chose this because it would produce the best quality film with the equipment we had access to.
   Some of our shots had to be re-shot because of poor lighting. To rectify this we shot the sequence again on a diffent day and different location with with better lighting. Quite a few of our shot were filmed free hand because the tripod couldnt get where we wanted the camera, bit for most of our shots we used a tripod to keep the camera steady.
   After we finished shooting we edited our film on Final Cut Express and then uploaded our film onto YouTube and Blogger. We then put the film on Facebook to get feedback from our friends. We also made another questionaire to get updated views and opinions on our film.
   I think the editing of our film was very successful. The continuity editing made the film flow as it should and a more enjoyable experience for the audience. I also think some of the cinematography was very successful too. The camera angles were really good for getting the audience to see our characters as we wanted them to, and the panning shots in the opening sequence set the tone for the film very well.
   Less successful aspects of our film were filming outside. Filming outside proved troublesome because we'd have random people walking past in the background of our shots which wasn;t what we wanted, also the background noise took away some of the intensity when the kidnapping happened in our film.
   After doing all of this I have learned how to shoot with a tripod and freehand, I've learned how to edit on Final Cut Express. I've also learned to to use blogger to document my work properly.

Evaluation part 3

Evaluation part 2

 Our film is very conventional in it's representation of teenagers. Isobelle is portrayed as a voulnerable and innocent schoolgirl, powerless to help herself when kidnapped, in need of a hero to save her. The costume of Isobelle is very conventional as well for a teenage girl, she has long hair and plain clothes, however the costume for Gary isn't. The clothes he is wearing wouldn't immediately imply that he is a sociopathic kidnapper. Usually the villain would be wearing dark cloathing but Gary wears a pink/purple jumper and blue jeans. Gary is the stereotypical age for and gender for a kidnapper however, he is middle aged and male.
   The camera angles used in our films represent the Isobelle, a teenage girl as voulnorable. In the close up shot where she wakes up the camera angle is facing slightly downward to represent her in a weak position.
   The parent of the film, Jane, is very stereotypical in her appearance. She wears a plain dress, and is stubborn when on the phone to her daughter when she is late, a typical convention seen in these types of thriller films. She does challenge the sterotype of women being weak however because she rescues Isobelle from her kidnapper instead of waiting for the men to do it or looking for a hero, she is the hero of the film and this is very unconventional.

Evaluation part 1

Evaluation

The narrative of our film is of a girl who gets kidnapped by a sociopath who believes she is his daughter, even though his daughter has been dead for years. We established this plot after deciding our film was to be a thriller, and a notable thriller film, Taken, is based around a kidnapping so we thought this would be a good basis for a thriller.
   Our first typical thriller convention is the male vilain and female
 victim. Women are often the victim in thriller films and it is common that they provide the motive for the hero of the film. Our film on the other hand is unconventional in that it's the mother of Isabelle that comes to her rescue and not a man.
   Another thriller convention present in our film is the locations used in our films. The place where Isobelle is kidnapped is a gloomy, lonely path through the woods which is a shortcut to get home from from school, which would be a typical place for a kidnapping in a thriller film. Another conventional location used in our film is the basement that Gary uses to hold Isobelle captive in. Small, isolated places tend to be used for captivity in thriller films to emphasise the hopelessness and fear the captive must be feeling.